A new proposal has been offered by the Dominion Government of Canada. Consideration is
now being made towards a government-owned undersea telegraph-telephone cable between Canada
and the mother country, Great Britain. The original route, surveryed by Canadian and
Quebec-born FN Gisbourn, was first suggested in 1860. The cable is to run from Glasgow,
Scotland to Faros Island, thence to Greenland and thence again to Hamilton Inlet,
Labrador, Canada [sic]. The estimated cost is $4,250,000, which, it is figured, would
permit a charge of nine cents a word for ordinary and five cents a word for Press messages.